The small Robertson Boulevard courthouse in Los Angeles closed its doors Friday, its traffic and small claims matters moved t...

The lawyer for one of the first three officers charged in the Rampart corruption scandal has come up with additional grounds ...

SANTA ANA - When Hung Tranh Mai goes to state court on Friday, he'll most likely be sentenced to death for the 1996 murder of...

WASHINGTON - Filling in another part of the school-prayer puzzle, the Supreme Court Monday ruled, 6-3, that student-led praye...

Finding Rampart scandal whistle-blower Rafael Perez to be at least a partially credible witness, a police department board of ...

WASHINGTON - A unanimous Supreme Court on Monday threw out a Massachusetts law that precludes the state from patronizing comp...

A recently announced state NAACP attempt to pursue a voter initiative to reform discriminatory police practices may be legall...

--Land Use Law-- Diamond Bar court holds that under redevelopment law, a city's evidence of blight must be substantial. ...

For many attorneys, climbing to the top means ascending to the upper echelons of status and compensation. But Cheryl Kopitzke...

SANTA ANA - An 86-year-old resident at the John Douglas French Center for Alzheimer's Disease in Los Alamitos sued the facilit...

THE CLOSER One lawyer tells his story of his search for the holy grail of true happiness in a new teaching job in Hawaii and ...

^^Bottom Line^^ Fee Fairness The 'PLCM' case may generate more employment opportunities for in-house counsel - but also may r...

THE ADVISER Budget constraints are causing legal departments to re-examine how they contract for outside legal services. As a...

In the wake of mass departures and failed merger talks, San Francisco's Landels Ripley & Diamond filed for Chapter 11 ban...

SANTA ANA - Devallis Rutledge, former chief assistant district attorney of Orange County, has filed a claim against the county...

FORUM Gov. Davis is hoping the rest of the California Legislature will adopt SB66 so he can sign a bill that he claims address...

--Spin Report-- By John M. Curtis. Pulling the rug out from underneath Clinton's Patients' Bill of Rights, the Supreme Court r...

Milpitas-based semiconductor company LSI Logic Corp., known for its system-on-a-chip, has acquired San Jose's DataPath System...

BARSTOW - In what may be the first case of its kind in California, prosecutors have filed a murder charge against the caretak...

When Bill Choe went to Seoul, Korea, in 1991 fresh out of Notre Dame Law School to act as a legal consultant to foreigners in...

Services were held recently for Lawrence A. Cohen, a family law attorney. Cohen, 42, died of a heart attack at his Glendale h...

Support for a controversial racial profiling bill before the Assembly Public Safety Committee appears to be evaporating as leg...

Services for Fred Rimerman, a retired Los Angeles Superior Court judge, will be at 3 p.m. today. Rimerman died Thursday of ca...

Former Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Charles M. Hughes has died. Hughes died Tuesday in Indian Wells, where he retired afte...

Gov. Gray Davis on Friday announced the appointment of two prosecutors to the superior court bench, one of whom was elected e...

Veteran real estate attorney Benzion J. Westreich has joined the Los Angeles office of Chicago-based Katten Muchin & Zavi...

A San Diego mother whose 8-year-old son was taken away from her in 1998 because she was imprisoned has no right to appeal tha...

The Los Angeles City Council on Friday rejected $10.35 million in settlement demands brought by seven people who have filed ci...

Founded for fund raising, departments in educational and charitable institutions now guide potential contributors and their co...

SAN JOSE -- A Santa Clara County judge has dismissed criminal charges against a San Jose attorney who had been swept up in a ...